If I remember correctly, Geordi LaForge was an actual person, a Star Trek fan with disablities who died young because of them and the character was named in memory of him and given a disability (his visor corrected blindness) as a way of honoring his life.
If I remember correctly, Geordi LaForge was an actual person, a Star Trek fan with disablities who died young because of them and the character was named in memory of him and given a disability (his visor corrected blindness) as a way of honoring his life.